By Eric Mack (NEWSMAX)
President Donald Trump dropped another reference to “Obamagate,” and toi potential criminal prosecutions tied to the failed Russia investigation, at Monday’s White House coronavirus task force briefing.
The Justice Department is conducting what Trump had called an investigation of the investigators. Trump refused to reveal what the criminal charges from Attorney John Durham’s ongoing investigation might be, however, leaving it to the media to read between the lines.
“You know what the crime is,” Trump told reporters in the White House Rose Garden. “The crime is very obvious to everybody; you just have to read the newspapers.”
Trump was asked about his tweets this weekend, which were apparent retaliation for former President Barack Obama’s claims the Trump DOJ was violating the rule of law.
“Obamagate: It’s been going on for a long time; it’s been going out from before I even got elected,” Trump began. “It’s a disgrace that it happened, and if you look at what’s going on, and if you look at now all this information that’s being released and, from what I understand, it’s only the beginning.
Some terrible things happened, and it should never be allowed to happen in our country again.”
Trump, while offering few specifics, did mention the Justice Department dropping the case against Gen. Mike Flynn over prosecutorial misconduct and what Attorney General William Barr called a violation of the rule of law.
“You’ll be saying what’s going on over the next, over the coming weeks,” Trump added in a rebuke of biased media coverage. “I wish you would write honestly about it, but unfortunately you choose not to do so.”
On Friday, Obama spoke up about the FBI controversy surrounding former national security adviser Flynn, declaring that “rule of law is at risk” after the Justice Department moved to drop charges. Obama’s reference to specific details about Flynn’s interactions with the Russian ambassador have fueled some pundits’ speculation that the scandal over the FBI probe extends to the uppermost levels of the Obama administration.
